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ANDREA, who was tricked into a relationship with notorious spycop ‘Carlo Neri,’ has little faith that the Mitting inquiry will bring justice for the female victims of state agents
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ON International Women’s Day, it is with a growing sense of impatience that I reflect on the progress of the undercover policing inquiry, the public probe set up to investigate undercover policing in England and Wales. 

I am a core participant in this inquiry, as I am one of a number of female activists deceived into long-term relationships by spycops. I lived with, and was engaged to, notorious Special Demonstration Squad officer “Carlo Neri” for two years. 

In August last year, I wrote here of my hope that Sir John Mitting, the newly appointed chair, would see through the web of state-sponsored lies and obfuscation, that he would listen to our stories in an insightful and impartial way. 

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